1st Edition
Writing and Thinking in Contemporary Academia The Poetics of Clarity
Acknowledgements Introductory Remarks: The Question of Clarity Part 1: The Poetics of Clarity in Contemporary Academic Writing 1. The Idealised Plane of Poetics: Core Concepts and Ideals 2. The Formation of Sentences 3. Researchers-in-the-Texts 4. Textual Structures of Research Articles Part 2: Reflections on The Consequences for Thinking 5. The Unstable Distinction Between Form and Content 6. Phrase Regimes, Genres, and the Expulsion of Metaphors 7. Authorial Effacement and the Suppression of Contexts, Biases, Interests 8. Textual Structures as Templates for Thinking 9. Thinking the Limits and the Limits for Thinking: The Inherent Positivist Bias 10. Clarity: A Potential Acceleration of Thinking? Epilogue Appendix I: A Note on Rancière’s Poetics of Knowledge Appendix II: A Note on Methods Works Cited Index
Biography
Martin Grünfeld is Assistant Professor in Metabolic Science in Culture at Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
